*Garda checkpoint. A JUDGE has described as ‘bizarre’ a road traffic case where a Galway motorist has told a court that the car he was driving in is registered to his six year old daughter.
*Martin Hannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley A judge has stated that a 43-year old Shannon man subjected two innocent men to “a drive-by shooting by the Internet” when falsely claiming on Facebook that the two were paedophiles.
*Asba Meats. A JUDGE has directed that the owner of a Shannon based Halal meat plant operator, Asba Meats attend court over his company’s failure to pay in full an unpaid debt of €16,931 to another meat firm.
*FILE PIC: Judge Mangan prior to his 2011 retirement. A 44 year old Clare man has appeared in court after allegedly punching a retired judge aged in his eighties outside an Ennis café.
*The grounds in Wolfe Tones were among the premises where Eddie Carey carried out burglaries. A JUDGE warned that if there is not progress over the next month in the case concerning a man charged with 24 burglaries at premises across Clare, Limerick and Galway, the accused could be let out of prison with the …
*Asba Meats. SHANNON based Halal meat plant operator, Asba Meats has agreed to pay unpaid debts and costs of €16,931 to another meat firm after its owner was ordered to attend court.
*The matter came before the Family Law Court. A GRIEVING father has rejected a judge’s proposal that the ashes of his late young little child be split between himself and his estranged partner, the child’s mother.
*Robbie Hogan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill ROBBIE HOGAN has returned as manager of the Ballyea senior hurlers for the third time while former Clare manager Donal Moloney has taken charge of his native Scariff.
*The matter came before Ennis District Court. “CHILDREN and love drive people mad, it just drives people over the edge”, a judge has told a court.
*Tommy Liddy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. SIXMILEBRIDGE were “second to everything” as they lost their first Clare SHC final since 2011.